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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gas turbine engine with as few parts as possible to reduce the costs of manufacturing, installing, refurbishing, overhauling, and replacing parts of the engine. SOLUTION: A gas turbine engine has components including a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine. At least one component is radially bladed having at least one row of radially extending rotatable blades and at least another is a worm component having an inner body 12 disposed within an outer body 14. The inner and outer bodies have offset inner 16 and outer axes 18, intermeshed inner and outer helical blades are rotated about the inner and outer axes respectively, and at least one of the inner and outer bodies are rotatable about a corresponding one of the inner and outer axes. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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